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\"Tijuana<\/a>Poster<\/i> (Innovative Leisure), the fourth LP by Long Beach\u2019s Tijuana Panthers, arrives still glistening with a patina of historical punk afterbirth. It\u2019s easy to go through the record and pick out references to its antecedents in the storied LA and Orange County music scenes. That said, there\u2019s also enough sparking of elements struck against one another, as well as solid songwriting, to make this a record to revisit.<\/p>\n

Often, <i>Poster<\/i> explodes into a thrilling cow-punk dance party. \u201cFoolish\u201d is an angry two-step flecked with surf guitar (courtesy of Chad Wachtel) and drums (Phil Shaheen), but those elements overlap and spread out on all sides like acid trails. The call and response vocals evoke X, but smudged and shifted to the background. \u201cSet Forth\u201d bursts at its seams with fuzzed-out bass (Daniel Michicoff) and sloganeering in bitten-off chunks. It\u2019s a foot-stomper that\u2019s not too precious about the vocals to obscure the chorus with a drum roll.<\/p>\n

Propelled by Michicoff\u2019s bass as a lead instrument and the diversity of vocal textures from all three members singing, the lower-key tracks are some of the strongest on the record. That throbbing, wine-dark bass fuels \u201cMiss You Hardly Know Me,\u201d with popping surf drums and guitars alternately delicate and noirish, all under a vocal that strains against itself as it moans the chorus, \u201cI was sick of dreams. I wanted sympathy.\u201d \u201cSend Down the Bombs\u201d pairs a crooning vocal with a nihilistic swing, unruffled like a punk Dean Martin on lines like, \u201cThere\u2019s black flags taking over, for some it\u2019s party time. I wish they could have their get-together and leave me alone. Let me have mine.\u201d It\u2019s riveting when that control gives way to a whirlwind of hi-hat, treble-laden guitar, and hard down-picking.<\/p>\n

Tijuana Panthers lean a little too heavily on the angst and ennui of the suburbs as it comes up on enough songs to elicit fatigue. There are also a couple tracks that just fall flat: the heavy-handed Ramones by way of Rancid on \u201cRight and Wrong\u201d and the tumbling vocals and dull backing track of \u201cI Hate Saturday Nights.\u201d Elsewhere, though, there are songs that feel completely fresh, even if clear predecessors can be made out in the background. \u201cMonitor,\u201d the best, most ambitious song on the record, takes a shuffle and plays it at nigh-hardcore velocity with a thorny guitar hook and dueling vocals recounting a man\u2019s terror at his life in sober reflection. \u201cTrujillo,\u201d the closing track, synthesizes the dread and doubt of the album and turns it into a white-hot laser beam of anger played out in cinemascope over a sweaty couples skate that cries out for handclaps even as it it makes you nervous.<\/p>\n

With Poster<\/i>, Tijuana Panthers have begun to slip out of the warm cocoon of what\u2019s come before them and carve out a DayGlo place in those long shadows. Whether you know Dangerhouse from Hellcat, this record will resonate with the eternal promise and the creeping dread of youth on long summer nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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